Example sentences of "matter of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall try as far as possible to discuss matters of principle rather than of particular detail . |
| 2 | CIP complicates matters of selection considerably because it only relates to some BNB entries , and therefore requires that CIP and non-CIP entries must be treated differently . |
| 3 | At the time , Ceauşescu was preoccupied with matters of taste rather than safety . |
| 4 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the manual is concerned with matters of design alone and does not address the benefits that might arise from legal changes — because it can not . |
| 6 | It was a matter of individual rather than mass persuasion , and it worked . |
| 7 | This was indeed a triumph ; like most of those who make predictions , Owen got some animals wrong later ( identifying as mammals what turned out to be reptilian remains ) , but connoisseurship is a matter of probabilities rather than certainties . |
| 8 | Oakeshott argues that legal validity is a matter of authenticity rather than justice , whether justice is viewed in terms of intrinsic rationality , utility , or conformity to some fundamental law . |
| 9 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 10 | As we were leaving , a matter of half-a-mile away or so , there was one big boom and the sky lit up red . |
| 11 | The growing independence of their children , at each successive stage , can be a matter of concern rather than joy for those who over-commit and over-identify their lives with the nurturing of dependent children . |
| 12 | What is interesting , however , is the importance of clast size in the breakage of bone , and clearly in a cave environment , where limestone clasts are abundant , angular and often very large , small mammal bones are likely to fragment very quickly indeed , in a matter of minutes rather than hours . |
| 13 | Here , second use came quickly , a matter of hours rather than days or months . |
| 14 | I 'm not bragging , but by the time I really started to look for Carol Flaxman I knew it would be a matter of hours rather than days . |
| 15 | But warmth tends to come as a matter of course simply because the base layer eliminates the clamminess which makes you feel cold . |
| 16 | So it 's , the , the Council does n't install central heating as a matter of course only if it 's a special case ? |
| 17 | All these marriages took place during the Great War and it is a matter of generation more than anything else if the groom was a serviceman . |
| 18 | They were only a matter of metres away but , due to the insulation which separated every portion of dock superstructure — a provision designed as a safeguard against just the kind of occurrence which had threatened Rostov — both had been safe from danger . |
| 19 | The check had become a matter of necessity rather than of choice . |
| 20 | Admittedly , anomie theory accentuates the constraints rather more than would perhaps be acceptable to indeterminists , but this is simply a matter of emphasis rather than qualitative difference from a ‘ realistic ’ indeterminist position . |
| 21 | And at this level of stressful incompetence , escape into averageness seems a matter of chance rather than will . |
| 22 | It was not merely a matter of correction here and there — these were ashes ; at best a discord such as some chained bear might pound on a piano . |
| 23 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 24 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |
| 25 | Perhaps all judges do accept the authority of the Constitution as a matter of convention rather than as the upshot of sound political theory . |
| 26 | It 's a matter of fact rather than rather than rather than a matter what is shown on the one inch map . |
| 27 | Well I 'm , as a matter of fact before that I actually said that er this , all this that I am doing on your behalf is completely free of charge |
| 28 | If the inland waterways came even close to being a nation-serving system , this was more a matter of outcome rather than of preconception . |
| 29 | At the same time you bleep the missing swimming pool attendant who responds by picking up the nearest intercom substation handset allowing you to issue instructions directly , all within a matter of seconds rather than minutes . |
| 30 | But this should be a matter of manners rather than draconian policies . |